Serge Houde
Acting
Born February 16, 1953 · Québec, Canada
Serge Houde (born February 16, 1953) is a Canadian film and television character actor. He is best known for his role in Jon Cassar's Emmy-nominated miniseries The Kennedys playing the notorious Chicago mafia boss Sam Giancana opposite Tom Wilkinson and Barry Pepper. GQ's Tom Carson said Houde's performance was "a terrific Sam Giancana (Serge Houde, and where has this formidable actor been all of Martin Scorsese's life?). It will probably set off Camelot guardians' alarm bells to hear that Giancana, the Chicago Mob boss, appears at all—and tête-à-tête with papa Joe, who's committing hubris's fatal error by negotiating with him." Houde began acting at age 35, and he has over 160 film and TV productions to his credit. Besides his role as Sam Giancana in The Kennedys, Houde also appeared in the Seth Rogen-starring feature, 50/50, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. In it, he played Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character's father and Anjelica Huston's character's husband; his character suffered from Alzheimer's. He also starred as The Doctor in episode 9 of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Kevin Tancharoen's web series anthology inspired by the popular video game of the same name. In 2014, Houde received a Leo Award nomination for Best Guest Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series for his role as drug kingpin David Thorpe on CTV's undercover cop series Played. The following year, he attracted attention for his moving portrayal of a homeless man suffering from Tourette's in the hit Canadian police drama 19-2.
Films (108)
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
2024
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
2023
A Christmas Proposal
2021
Five More Minutes
2021
A Little Daytime Drama
2021
Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6
2021
The Baker's Son
2021
Ruby
2021
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
2021
Christmas She Wrote
2020
If I Only Had Christmas
2020
Coffee & Kareem
2020
Love in Winterland
2020
Mingle All the Way
2018
Christmas on Holly Lane
2018
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
2018
Final Vision
2017
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
2017
Boundaries
2016
Who Killed JonBenét?
2016
Nine Lives
2016
The Wedding March
2016
All Things Valentine
2016
In My Dreams
2015
The Age of Adaline
2015
Santa Hunters
2014
Run for Your Life
2014
Lonesome Dove Church
2014
Dangerous Intuition
2013
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
2013
End of the World
2013
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts
2013
Hitched for the Holidays
2012
Notes from the Heart Healer
2012
Good Morning, Killer
2011
50/50
2011
A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!
2011
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2011
No Surrender
2011
He Loves Me
2011
The Kate Logan Affair
2010
Elopement
2010
Messages Deleted
2010
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
Grace
2009
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
2009
Iron Road
2009
Personal Effects
2009
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008
Demain
2008
The American Trap
2008
Boot Camp
2008
La belle empoisonneuse
2007
Summit Circle
2007
Destination: Infestation
2007
The Invisible
2007
My Daughter, My Angel
2007
Air Buddies
2006
Legacy of Fear
2006
Sisters
2006
Four Extraordinary Women
2006
Proof of Lies
2006
Final Days of Planet Earth
2006
The Rocket
2005
Eighteen
2005
A Beachcombers Christmas
2004
Manners of Dying
2004
The Perfect Score
2004
Paycheck
2003
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002
The Score
2001
Hidden Agenda
2001
Wilder
2000
Task Force: Caviar
2000
Code Name: Jaguar
1999
Grey Owl
1999
P.T. Barnum
1999
Promise Her Anything
1999
Requiem for Murder
1999
The Last Breath
1999
Running Home
1999
Musketeers Forever
1998
The Windsor Protocol
1998
Dead End
1998
Little Men
1998
The Jackal
1997
The Peacekeeper
1997
Dancing on the Moon
1997
Natural Enemy
1996
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996
Pretty Poison
1996
Hawk's Vengeance
1996
Highway of Heartache
1996
Black List
1995
The Wrong Woman
1995
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1995
Octobre
1994
Windigo
1994
Love & Human Remains
1994
Eye of the Wolf
1994
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
1993
The Portrait
1992
Stay Tuned
1992
Omen IV: The Awakening
1991
Empire of Ash III
1990